More than anything, staffers make the difference,” Eva Mitnick, director of Los Angeles Public Library’s engagement and learning division, said to me about the library’s after-school Student Zone ...

Get ready for back-to-school by setting up a personalized school supply center to store items such as pencils, pens, markers and scissors. This project is both creative and functional and provides a ...

PARMA, Ohio -- With school back in session, the Cuyahoga County Public Library's 10 Homework Centers are busy offering free homework help to students in kindergarten through eighth grade. Susannah ...

Cindy Mediavilla spent 18 years as a public librarian and managed the Friendly Stop, a homework center for Orange (Calif.) Public Library, in the early 1990s. She has been studying after-school ...

MINNEAPOLIS — Ben Franklin once said that nothing is certain but death and taxes, but students know that homework runs a strong third. "Work" gets most of the attention, but "home" also plays an ...

In a new study, the Center for American Progress delves into the quality of American homework assignments and finds a lot of them don't demand much from students besides basic skills. The study ...